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You think it's scary now in the Middle East.

It could get a whole lot worse.

That is the Iranian Foreign Minister.

Last night warning that Iran, one of the regional superpowers,

could launch a preemptive strike against Israel to stop it going into Gaza.

All this, as President Biden, is preparing to visit Israel tomorrow.

And despite all of that, and despite the massive movement of people that is going on within Gaza,

and despite again and again us hearing that humanitarian aid will be allowed into

Gaza and that the border crossing with Egypt might open to at least allow some people out,

there remains no sign of any of those things happening. And each day that goes by Gaza and

it's two million people run out of water, run out of medical supplies,

run out of food. The whole of the international Western effort is now focused on trying

to get that border open. Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. It's John, it's Lewis.

And if you are trying to get in or out of Gaza, broadly there are two routes.

One is via Israel, and the other to the south is via Egypt.

But that crossing point remains stubbornly closed, despite the efforts of diplomats from around the world,

Arabs, Americans, the West, are trying to find some way that it can be opened so that humanitarian supplies can get in.

But you have Israel saying it won't stop the aerial bombardments,

and it's very worried that humanitarian supplies

not only supply the gazaan people but they resupply Hamas and you have got Hamas saying

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